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Love them or hate them, beards have been around in one shape or another for centuries. In fact they can tell us a lot about how the face (pun intended) of Australian society has changed over time. Jeremy Martens, an historian from the University of Western Australia, is studying beards through the ...

A new generation of visual artists, novelists and academics discuss creative responses in an era of suspicion and prejudice. In this panel discussion they confront cultural stereotypes and explore some of the issues and realities of in contemporary Australia. ...

Nobody knows what the historical Jesus actually looked like, in body or facial features. The dominant image we have is a slender man with long brown hair parted in the middle, a beard and pale-ish skin. This is not how hes always been represented. Whats informed the many faces and bodies of Jesus, ...

Samantha Gash gave up a potentially lucrative career in the law to become an ultra marathon athlete. She has run across South Africa, the Simpson Desert, and 250 kilometres of Antarctica.What motivates someone to want to run thousands of kilometres through the most inhospitable terrain? For ...

Are you a ? This ancient concept that we should aspire to be citizens of the world is in fact not about travelling the globe. Its about being curious about other cultures and about being open to accept differences. Cosmopolitanism has become one of the most pressing issues in modern ethics and ...